A leaflet presenting the SHCS
 please find here the leaflet presenting the SHCS in the different languages English Deutsch français italiano
funding 2016 and 2017 by SNSF – thanks to all
Dear all, We want to inform you that the SHCS will be funded at the same level as before from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for 2016 and 2017. This decision was based on a competitive intermediary evaluation by the SNSF that all cohorts in the cohort program had to undergo. The evaluation was […]
Martin Rickenbach is retiring at the end of July
Martin Rickenbach goes into retirement the 1st of August 2015. He has been the head of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study data centre for the last 20 years. In 1995, when the data centre was transferred from Zurich to the CHUV, he took over the leadership from Bruno Ledergerber. Together with all the data managers […]
1st Swiss HIV Cohort Study Metabolic and Aging workshop
Jörg Schüpbach is retiring at the end of May
Change in the management of the SHCS data centre
Martin Rickenbach will retire at the end of July 2015, after 20 years as head of the SHCS data centre! Franziska Schöni-Affolter is the designated head of the SHCS data centre. To allow a smooth transfer of the activities, Franziska has been the acting chief of the SHCS data centre since the beginning of this […]
Symposium in honour of Jörg Schüpbach, 23rd April 2015
Funding by a SNSF Starting Grant
Dr. Roger Kouyos from the Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, was awarded a SNSF Starting Grant for the project “Using transmission networks for assessing and guiding prevention efforts in HIV”.
Funding by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
The SERI granted Prof. Alexandra Trkola from the Institute of Medical Virology of the University Zurich a financial support of CHF 1’000’000.- for the research project “Defining determinants of broadly neutralizing antibody evolution in viral infection to guide vaccine development”. This project is partially based on the SHCS.
Funding by SystemsX.ch
SystemsX.ch, The Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology, granted Prof. Huldrych Günthard from the Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology of the University Hospital Zurich/UZH, and colleagues (Prof. Niko Beerenwinkel, ETHZ/BSSE, Dr. Jasmina Bogojeska, IBM, Prof. Sebastian Bonhoeffer, ETHZ, Prof. Jacques Fellay, EPFL, Dr. Roger Kouyos, USZ, Prof. Karin Metzner, USZ, and Prof. Volker Roth, […]